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Title: Re: [RC] USDA Mad Cow News Release 12-23-03

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> There was a study done in a very primitive population, I believe that
> the people were still cannibalistic, and had the disease.  Most
> men did not have the disease, because they got to eat first, the good
> muscle meats.  The Women and children, who ate last, got to eat
> brain and what ever they could, so the disease showed up mainly in the
> women and children.
>
> Lynge

The disease is called kuru in New Guinea:  http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/bindon/ant570/Papers/McGrath/McGrath.htm

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Lynn KInsky, Santa Ynez, CA
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